Rocky Hill, CT – Connecticut’s most talented young scientists and engineers will be honored by the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) at its 45th Annual Meeting, to be held virtually on Tuesday, June 30, 2020. Students from this year’s Connecticut Science & Engineering Fair, Connecticut Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, and Connecticut Invention Convention received CASE awards and will be recognized as part of the meeting.
The H. Joseph Gerber Medal of Excellence and Award of Excellence, established by CASE, will be awarded to the top winners of the Connecticut Science & Engineering Fair, and the fair’s Urban School Challenge Program. The awards were created to recognize and honor H. Joseph Gerber’s (1924-1996) technical leadership in inventing, developing and commercializing manufacturing automation systems for a wide variety of industries, making those industries more efficient and cost-effective in a worldwide competitive environment.
This year’s keynote address will be delivered by CASE Member’s Nick Donofrio, IBM Fellow Emeritus and Executive Vice President, Innovation and Technology and Dave Ferrucci, Founder, CEO and Chief Scientist, Elemental Cognition and Director of Artificial Intelligence, Bridgewater Associates. Additionally, thirty-six newly elected members of the Academy will be recognized at the event and Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company, also will be recognized as the recipient of the 2020 Connecticut Medal of Technology.
Student winners to be honored are:
The 2020 H. Joseph Gerber Medal of Excellence
Patricia Joseph, Engineering and Science University Magnet School, West Haven, CT
2020 Connecticut Science & Engineering Fair – 1st Place, Life Sciences-Senior Division; Project: Comparative Analysis of the Mitigation and Emissions Rates of Volatile-Organic Compounds in Various Ornamental Plants Using a Monitored Environment
Abigail Slanski, Amity Regional High School, Woodbridge, CT
2020 Connecticut Science & Engineering Fair – 1st Place, Physical Sciences-Senior Division; Project: Using an Automated Coating System to Optimize Nitric Oxide Release Patterns of Antibacterial Catheters
2020 H. Joseph Gerber Award of Excellence
Johnathan Bell and Devesh Kakar, Academy of Aerospace and Engineering, East Hartford, CT
2020 Connecticut Science & Engineering Fair – Urban School Challenge High School Winner; Project: Effective Augmentation of Urban Wind Energy Harvesters to Increase Electric Power Generation and Environmental Protections
2020 Connecticut Science & Engineering Fair – Middle School Winner, Urban School Challenge
Snigtha Mohanraj, Engineering and Science University Magnet School, West Haven, CT; Project: Effectiveness of the Organic Polymers for Removing Microplastic in an Aqueous Solution
2020 Connecticut Junior Science and Humanities Symposium
1ST Place: Rachel Brooks, Christian Heritage School, Trumbull, CT; Project: Increased Prevalence of Gastrointestinal, Cardiovascular, and Immunologic Conditions in Hospitalized Patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: A Case-Control Study
2ND Place: Sam Florin, Greenwich High School, Greenwich, CT; Project: Decoding Algorithms for Correction of X-Z and Spatially Correlated Errors in Topological Quantum Computing
3RD Place: Kenneth Choi, Ridgefield High School, Ridgefield, CT; Project: Towards Privacy-Preserving Intelligence: Differential Privacy in Machine Learning
4TH Place: Ashley Granquist, William H. Hall High School, West Hartford, CT; Project: Multiwavelength Identification of Black Hole Candidates in M13
5TH Place: Shun Sakai, Greenwich High School, Greenwich, CT; Project: Portable, Simple Filtration of V. cholerae Infected Water using Electrified, Silver-SWCNT Nanostructures within a Sari-Cloth Textile
2020 Connecticut Invention Convention CASE Awardees
Alexander Baneat, Shelton Intermediate School
Sahana Bettegowda, Greens Farm Academy
James Crocker, East Granby Middle School
Ana-Lois Davis, East Windsor Middle School
Brianna Deierlein, Newtown Middle School
Emily Ely, Dual Language & Arts Magnet Middle School
Simon Karpinski, Lyme Old Lyme Middle School
Puma Marx, Newtown Middle School
Genesis Ortiz Jr., Interdistrict Discovery Magnet School
Ariana Pourkavoos, Talcott Mountain Academy of Science, Mathematics and Technology
Ronak Ramesh, CREC Academy of Aerospace and Engineering
Andy Sicuranza, Lyme Old Lyme Middle School
Jasper Southam, Talcott Mountain Academy of Science, Mathematics and Technology
Anthony Szarpa, West Rocks Middle School
Tasneem Zoghol, Madina Academy